Cloud Security Engineer - Azure Defender/Prisma Cloud/Cortex Cloud

PNC is a financial services company seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to support its Technology organization. The role focuses on enabling and evaluating cloud-native application protection platforms, managing Azure, AWS, and Palo Alto vendor relationships, owning cloud security controls, and developing PowerBI dashboards for cloud security reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with our partners that have ownership of technical controls that either Cortex Cloud provides and empower our partners to test and evaluate the solution to determine if there is a fit and we as an enterprise can take advantage of it and reduce tool sprawl
• This will require proactive relationship building with our partners and stakeholders
• Enabling our partners with appropriate access to lower environments to perform testing and analysis
• Build relationships with vendor and ensure they are providing us and our partners with appropriate response and support to evaluate new capabilities
• Engage and work with EA and successfully obtain approvals from PNC processes to enable new capabilities that increase our security posture in Cloud
• Own the Vendor Relationship with Azure, AWS, and Palo Alto
• Champion our issues and challenges with each vendor and hold them accountable to correcting problems and bugs that impact this team from delivering value
• Plan and lead Quarterly Business Review (QBR)
• RCSA Control owner for Cloud Security - TEC083
• Provide attestation evidence on recurring basis as required for each Cloud Security Control
• Review and Analyze TEC083 on recurring basis
• Determine if there are gaps and net new controls are needed
• Determine if existing controls are no longer applicable or belong in a different RAU
• Work with Cloud Security team to automate attestation evidence
• Determine if evidence obtained manually can be automated
• Cloud Security dashboard UI development with Microsoft PowerBI
• The Cloud Security dashboard is used by our stakeholders, partners, and the business to view Azure and AWS configuration violations. This role will help to create the dashboard views that consumers require
• Enable senior leaders, stakeholders, and lines of business with accurate and timely information to help them make informed decisions
• Provide statistics on dashboard usage
• Engage customers for requirements to build backlog of capabilities for Cloud Security Roadmap
• Provides subject matter expertise when applying security concepts. Leverages technical knowledge and industry experience to design, build, and maintain technology solutions. Responsible for deliverables related to project timelines
• Responsible for working with architecture to take high level architectural designs and determine the specifics around implementation details (ex: sizing) integration details, onboarding and operationalization
• Evaluates patches, updates, and ongoing maintenance. Determines impacts to existing solutions when new standards are implemented. Utilizes change control and other governance processes to ensure alignment of solutions
• Develops detailed implementation, configuration, design, and engineering documentation. Build and implement solutions
• Works with operational partners to enable transition and day-to-day supportability
• Provides engineering support to existing technology in a production environment and collaborating with other groups as required. Seeks opportunities to grow a broad knowledge base to complement specific subject matter expertise

Requirements:

• Ability to work with ambiguity inside of the role
• Strong at building and maintaining relationships
• Ability to understand the needs of our customers
• Ability to influence our partners to further adopt CNAPP capabilities
• Technical skills with high level understanding of CNAPP, controls, and dashboard development
• Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience
• In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered
• Bachelors
• Preferable to have working knowledge with at least one CNAPP - AWS, Azure, or Palo Alto